Japanese politics is different in many ways, but in one, it’s having what appears to be an analogous moment: “Honestly ...

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Japan’s meteorological agency issued a tsunami alert for Japan’s Pacific coast, upgrading an earlier advisory stemming from ...

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Tsunami waves hit Kamchatka and Japan after massive 8.8 earthquake off Russia - The entire west coast of the U.S. has been alerted to a potential tsunami following the massive earthquake off Russia ...

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